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Northrop Grumman gets contract mod for Common Missile Compartment
by Ryan Maass
Washington (UPI) Jan 27, 2017


Raytheon to provide Small Diameter Bombs for U.S. Air Force
Washington (UPI) Jan 30, 2017 - Raytheon Missile Systems has received a contract modification to supply Small Diameter Bombs for the U.S. Air Force.

Under the contract, the company will provide low-rate initial production for 312 SDB II Lot 3 munitions for the branch. The order also includes 413 SBD Lot 3 single weapon containers, 20 weapon conversions for guided test vehicles, 20 production reliability incentive demonstration effort captive vehicles and training and maintenance services.

Work on the contract will be performed at Raytheon's facility in Tucson, Ariz., and is expected to be complete by the end of June 2019.

The U.S. Department of Defense did not specify the value of Raytheon's contract modification, but did disclose the company received $62 million at the time of the modification award. The Air Force Life Cycle Management Center in Eglin Air Force Base, Fla., is listed as the contracting activity.

Small Diameter Bombs are weapons designed to allow warfighters to engage their targets in the face of poor weather and other adverse conditions. The weapons come equipped with a seeker with three different modes, including a millimeter wave radar, an imaging infrared and a semi-active laser.

The SBD is able to fly more than 45 miles to hit moving targets, a characteristic Raytheon says improves warfighter safety.

The U.S. Air Force and the U.S. Navy have begun integrating the bombs on a variety of existing aircraft such as the F-15E Strike Eagle, the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, and the F-35 Lightning II.

Northrop Grumman has received a $22.7 million contract modification to provide engineering and design services for the U.S. Navy's Common Missile Compartment.

The modification is the latest adjustment for the Common Missile Compartment project, a device slated for use aboard the Columbia-class submarines under development. The company received its last modification for the program in March 2016.

Northrop Grumman's contract with the U.S. Navy includes options which, if exercised, have the potential to bring the total contract value to $198 million.

Under the new modification, the company is tasked with providing additional technical engineering, design and development engineering, component and full-scale test and evaluation, and tactical underwater launch hardware production.

According to the U.S. Department of Defense, the work will be performed at a number of locations including Sunnyvale, Calif.; Ridgecrest, Calif.; Cape Canaveral, Fla.; and others. The work is expected to be complete by September 2020.

Northrop Grumman received all funding at the time of the modification award. The Strategic Systems Programs in Washington, D.C., is listed as the contracting activity.

The Common Missile Compartment is being designed to hold the weapons to be used by Colombia-class submarines, formerly referred to as Ohio Replacement vessels. Once completed, the submarines will be armed with Trident D5 missiles.


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